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Lisa Blount

 
Actor: Lisa Blount
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  • Born: 1957
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
  • Career Highlights: An Officer and a Gentleman, Box of Moonlight, Blind Fury
  • First Major Screen Credit: 9/30/55 (1977)

Biography

Born in Arkansas, actress Lisa Blount made her feature film debut at the age of 17 as a teenage girl obsessed with James Dean in 9/30/55, a film shot on-location in Arkansas. After moving to Hollywood, she appeared in the 1979 re-edit of the drama The Swap (aka Sam's Song) starring Robert De Niro. Her breakthrough role came a few years later as Debra Winger's best friend Lynette Pomeroy in the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. Both Blount and co-star David Keith were nominated for Best New Star at the 1983 Golden Globes. A few leading roles followed, including the war drama Cease Fire opposite Don Johnson. For the rest of the '80s, she had leading roles in several low-budget horror films, starting with the thriller Dead and Buried. On television, Blount starred in the short-lived family dramas Sons and Daughters and Profit, as well as several made-for-TV movies. In 1996, she made a brief comeback as Purlene Dupree, Catherine Keener's sister in Tom DiCillo's Box of Moonlight. She also reunited with David Keith to star in Matthew Modine's 1999 crime drama If...Dog...Rabbit, released on home video as One Last Score. Not long after, Blount married actor/director Ray McKinnon and started making films projects with him. Their short film The Accountant won Best Live Action Short Film at the 2001 Academy Awards. They worked together again on Chrystal, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the dramatic competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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Lisa Blount
Born July 1, 1957 (1957-07-01) (age 52)
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Spouse(s) Ray McKinnon

Lisa S. Blount (born July 1, 1957) is an American film and television actress and Oscar-winning producer.

Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and raised in Jacksonville, Arkansas, Blount started working in show business with her debut in Sam's Song (1969). After graduating from Jacksonville High School in 1975, she landed several small television roles, but she is most likely remembered for her debut film role as Lynette Pomeroy, the cynical, insecure best friend to Paula Pokrifki, played by Debra Winger, in An Officer and a Gentleman. Another memorable role was that of Jim Profit's outrageous stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed Fox TV series Profit.

She also starred in Prince of Darkness as the love interest to Jameson Parker who would play a more important role in the story as it went along. She also appeared during season two (1986) of Moonlighting in the episode 'Sleep Talkin' Guy' as the beautiful prostitute, Toby, who helped David Addison crack cases.

She later became a producer and, along with her husband Ray McKinnon, won the Academy Award for best live action short film for the 2001 film, "The Accountant".

Blount produced and acted in the film Chrystal, starring Billy Bob Thornton.

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